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Tracegrow, a Finnish company, uses recycled batteries and industrial waste to create agricultural fertilizers.

Lessons from Finland’s attempt to transition to a circular economy

Sean Mowbray 23 Jan 2024
A herd of cows.

Agricultural nitrogen pollution is global threat, but circular solutions await

Claire Asher 16 Jan 2024

Rolling towards circularity? Tracking the trace of tires

Abhishyant Kidangoor, Sandy Watt 12 Jan 2024
Rubber duckies

As the world swims in plastic, some offer an answer: Ban the toxic two

Alden Wicker 2 Jan 2024
Arg-e Bam in Iran, a trading center on the famous Silk Road, known to be the largest adobe building in the world.

What’s old is new again: Bioarchitects plot route to circular economy

Sandra Weiss 26 Oct 2023
The Deekali Project: Women washing plastic waste to prepare for the grinding machine at a local recycling facility in Senegal.

As companies buy ‘plastic credits,’ are they reducing waste or greenwashing?

Charles Pekow 19 Oct 2023
Tires by the road.

Rolling car tires into the global circular economy

Sean Mowbray 21 Aug 2023
Tridi Oasis recycles PET bottles to produce rPET flakes which could be used to make packing materials and textiles.

Funding circularity: Investing in Asia’s circular economy business models

Abhishyant Kidangoor 1 Aug 2023
A farmer in Colombia checks her coffee bushes.

The circular economy: Sustainable solutions to solve planetary overshoot?

Sean Mowbray 27 Jul 2023
The Txori Argi fishing trawler in port.

West African fishers strike for fair wages and ‘respect’ on EU-owned vessels

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Jul 2023

Even in recycling, microplastics remain a persistent polluter, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 May 2023
Lilia Java at Lake Tarapoto.

Indigenous women in Colombia protect rich Amazonian wetland from overfishing

Astrid Arellano 20 Apr 2023

Mongabay Explains: What’s the difference between artisanal and industrial fishing?

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2023
A Dutch super trawler pulling in the net.

Mongabay Explains: What’s all the brouhaha over bottom trawling?

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2022
A bee on a flower.

Human justice element is key to stemming biodiversity loss, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Dec 2022
Two sand sea cucumbers.

Fishers in Flores Sea opt to limit harvest of overexploited sea cucumbers

Wahyu Chandra 28 Nov 2022
A farmer extracts cacao beans from the pods in Colombia.

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for November 2022

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2022
A family clears overgrown aquatic weeds in a wetland.

Habitat loss, climate change threaten Bangladesh’s native freshwater fishes with extinction

Rafiqul Islam 20 Oct 2022

Heat-sensing drone cameras spy threats to sea turtle nests

Liz Kimbrough 17 Oct 2022
Banks of a river where sand is illegally mined.

Sand mining a boon for illegal industry at expense of Bangladesh’s environment

Abu Siddique 16 Aug 2022
A Nepali honey collector.

Billions rely on wild species for food, energy and more: IPBES report

John Cannon 5 Aug 2022
Children fishing in Thailand.

‘It sustains us all’: IPBES report calls for accounting of nature’s diverse values

John Cannon 4 Aug 2022
Fishermen fishing on the Madeira rapids.

Overexploitation threatens Amazon fisheries with collapse, study warns

Peter Speetjens, Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 2022
Fishing in Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, local fishers and foreign trawlers battle for their catch

Ashoka Mukpo 24 May 2022
Asian giant tortoises

Wild release marks return of giant forest tortoises to Bangladesh hills

Carolyn Cowan 10 Jan 2022
Oil barrel Amazon

California is the world’s number one importer of Amazonian oil, report finds

Victoria Schneider 23 Dec 2021

Advocates welcome halt to shortfin mako shark fishing, call for longer ban

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Nov 2021

Brazil farming co-op carves a sustainable path through agribusiness stronghold

Shanna Hanbury 11 Oct 2021

Experts see no way back for NZ firm blocked from trying to mine the seabed

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Oct 2021

Sea turtles: Can these great marine migrators navigate rising human threats?

Elizabeth Devitt 20 Sep 2021
Cow in Colombia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Though nefarious, Russian hack of JBS should prompt environmental debate over meat “oligopoly” (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 25 Aug 2021

Billions in fishing subsidies finance social, ecological harm, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Jul 2021

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